In Chris Kraus, all four of them spent the day together by Sophie Madeline Dess

Chris Kraus is the author of a book entitled I like Dick. Chris Kraus is also the author The four of them spent the day togetherA new novel where the main character, Catt Greene, is the author of the book entitled I like Dick. Catt joked that I like Dick is “with the cover led by everyone and tweeted.” Catt suspects that at least some people who pose with their books are not really reading it, but they like what the book implies: that they too, love Dick. There is no difference that this novel is not exactly about loving Dick, but about Loving Dick, a particular man, not an organ.

Kraus is interested in misleading words, in the facts that point in various directions (aliens in Alien anorexia not space creatures but within us, And there is a lot of energy Apparent death). Based on the title alone, Kraus’s latest novel might suggest a picture of four friends who enjoy lunch on the grass followed by a charming trip to Brighton Beach. But actually this novel is a fast -paced mystery that is told in three interconnected parts that lead to subtle reflection in the class, strength, and banality of our rough instinct.

Catt, the hero of the novel, began as a passenger and eating medicine which, in the second half of the novel, bought a gloomy cottage in Minnesota and metal range that was hit by Met. In the third round, he was obsessed with amazing and unreasonable murder that occurred nearby: Three teenagers of the working class kidnapped an acquaintance, hanging out with him for several hours, and then killed him.

Preparation for the action to confuse Catt. He struggled to understand the motives of teenagers, their previous lives. “What are really preferred by Brittney and Misty, Micah, Brandon, and Evan? What are their jokes, who are their other friends? Who is jealous of them, what are their dreams?” Kraus wrote.

Catt interviewed local residents. He reads through teenage texts (many “WYD” and “where you at”). Still, he can’t “not find an answer.” He was locked from their deepest awareness, allowed to unite their internal world based on the pieces of information given to him. Lack of causality haunts him, the inconclusive conclusion he forced to frustrate him. Frustration echoing the experience of the reader’s own about Catt – Through novels, we are only given the facts of Catt’s life and allowed to conclude the intensity of emotions that are in accordance with them. The reader must deliver her reaction to her alcoholic husband; towards his younger sister who experienced developmental disorders; Towards farsightedness from Twitter (and real life). The most dramatic Catt is in his description of him as “trembling and super-alert” in response to Paul’s drunken anger. But even this intensity was quickly caught by logistical information: “He caught the plane to Oakland the next morning. In eight days he would start a long journey to Balsam, where, God was willing, he would finish the biography of Acker in the first week of September. And he had to finish it at that time because once the pilot fell at the end of August to work.

While in many cases this is a novel about aspirations, classes, and addiction, it is the most novel that considers human nature opacity. We consist of plans and facts: accumulated data that, on paper, has a lack of causality. Documents for each of us are somewhere. And that can say everything about you, but does not reveal anything. Or it can only be misleading. Like your photo with a book that you have never read.